WHERE THE CANDIDATES STAND ON THE U.S. ECONOMY

THROUGHOUT U.S. history, the national economy has been the permanent
political issue. This year, partly because Americans feel relatively
prosperous and partly because they are preoccupied by concern for law
and order and the Viet Nam war, the economy has not become a major
topic of campaign contention. Yet manysome would say mostof the
problems that the new President will face are deeply entwined with
economics. Without making big headlines, both Richard Nixon and Hubert
Humphrey have placed themselves on record in considerable detail about
the direction of the economy. Though both men...